I had one case with CanPost where I sold an item to someone in US, the item was reshipped in the original manufacturers carton that was designed for international shipping.
It was subsequently damaged in transit, I made a claim and it was refused out of hand due 'Insufficient packaging'
They shipped the item back to me and it had obviously been crushed by such as a fork lift etc.
At the time, Canada had recently created a post of Ombudsman to take these issues to.
I made a claim and sent of the photographs of the evidence, he evidently went to bat for me as a couple of weeks later I received the claimed amount, with also the damaged unit which I managed to repair.
Max.

 

Hi again,

You mean the g9 would handle two 8 core CPU's for a total of 16 cores?

Do any of them work with AMD processors? Those are cheaper 8 core processors even though they are not really the full 8 cores but rather 8 integer cores and 4 floating point cores instead of 8 integer and 8 float cores.
Yeah AMD cheated on their 8 core CPU's and still are today.

The G9 can run most of the E5-26xx CPU's up to the E5-2699Av4
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e5-processors/e5-2699a-v4.html

There is a huge amount of surplus server hardware on the market. Check a few sites like: http://www.servermonkey.com/

 

Hi,

I wonder if there is any chance that they might find it eventually. They might stall for time so they might find it and avoid the payoff point.

I had a package coming through USPS (not UPS) that got lost for over a month. What a pain that was, calling here and there and nobody knows anything, and rude secretaries. They went through some big changes here in NJ so the way they routed the mail changed drastically.

Well if they find it, I hope they send it back to ME and not the customer who I've already refunded.

 

Well if they find it, I hope they send it back to ME and not the customer who I've already refunded.

Would you really want to give $500 back to the post office just so you can relist it and sell it again for $500?

 

Would you really want to give $500 back to the post office just so you can relist it and sell it again for $500?

I had the scenario in mind where the customer gets the $500 refund (already refunded), then the $500 parts that we thought were "lost" before I get my $500 refund from UPS, at which point they say "oh goodie, goods delivered, refund canceled." And I'm stuck begging the customer to send me $500.

 

I had the scenario in mind where the customer gets the $500 refund (already refunded), then the $500 parts that we thought were "lost" before I get my $500 refund from UPS, at which point they say "oh goodie, goods delivered, refund canceled." And I'm stuck begging the customer to send me $500.

Hi,

Yes that would be a problem, and i wonder if the site where you sold this item would assist with the collection.

 

It's Pig in the Poke for sure. I'm waiting for a HP surplus DL380 G5. It might be spotless or it might be a pig.

Looks like gold this time. The machine looks and runs great using a live Linux USB stick.

PCI Card riser removed.

 

Looks like gold this time. The machine looks and runs great using a live Linux USB stick.

PCI Card riser removed.

Hi,

That looks pretty cool.
I wonder how well a system like that would work with four 8 core processors if that is possible

AMD has a relatively new processor out now too i have not looked into yet in detail. I hope the cores are all standard cores this time and not 1/2 float point unit cores. They are more than twice the price of the previous model though.

 

Hi,

That looks pretty cool.
I wonder how well a system like that would work with four 8 core processors if that is possible

I'm sure you could find something more expensive with that number of cores in a server but I paid $99 with free shipping for this 8 core model.

It sounds like a jet on a cold boot.

 

I'm sure you could find something more expensive with that number of cores in a server but I paid $99 with free shipping for this 8 core model.

It sounds like a jet on a cold boot.

Hi,

Yes, pretty cool

Well i think about going to 16 cores some times but not sure if i want to invest. I bought so many new Mo Bos and CPU's already.

I checked out the newer Ryzen cores and they look much better than the Bulldozer based cores. I cant figure out what took AMD so long to do this. The new cores have TWO float point units per core and do two threads per core, so with an 8 core Ryzen i would get 16 threads, not too bad. That would set me back about $500 USD though and i am not into that right now unfortunately. I'd have to buy the new CPU plus another new MoBo and new RAM.
If you switch the letters of AMD around a little you get MAD
I am mad they did not do this sooner as i would have much nicer CPU right now.